The Rite of Urban Passage

Reza Masoudi is a native southwestern Iranian who lives in London, where he is currently a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin. He is an urbanist whose work focuses on the geography of crowds and protests, urban violence, and studies of religious rituals in public spaces in Iran and India.

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Acknowledgements

Preface



Introduction



PART I: THE SPATIAL MANIFESTATION OF RITUAL



Chapter 1. Towards a Framework for Spatially Studying Religious Rituals

Chapter 2. The Spatial Genealogy of Muharram Rituals



PART II: THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF RITUAL



Chapter 3. The Traditional Muharram Processions

Chapter 4. The Rite of Urban Passage

Chapter 5. Entwining Past and Present in Performed Space

Chapter 6. Reinventing Muharram Rites



Conclusion: An Urban-spatial Approach to Muharram Rituals



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Index